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Exactly. Just when do we pick our candidates on how well they do in a debate. Let’s look at their records instead. Romney, in my book, is worse than Perry - regardless, of who did or didn’t win a stupid debate.

Just when do we pick our candidates on how well they do in a debate. Let’s look at their records instead.

Exactly. People argued for centuries about the velocities of falling objects, but it wasn't until Galileo dropped his balls off the Leaning Tower of Pisa that the issue was finally settled. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

[Romney, in my book, is worse than Perry - regardless, of who did or didn’t win a stupid debate.]

Yep. I’ve pretty much resigned myself that Romney is going to be the nominee. He is smooth, and he is also a liar. We can thank fellow conservatives when Romney start appointing liberal judges to the courts.

Like it or not, debate performance matters and it matters big time. There is a large demographic called the mushy middle who fancies themselves as the independent kingmakers in this country. A lot of them are barely smarter than dolts, but they vote in large numbers.

Perry not only shot himself in the foot with these people for his poor debate performance, he shot himself in the foot with conservatives for his stubborn defense of incentives for illegal aliens to stay in Texas and increase their footprint. That's a nonstarter for many conservatives just as much as Romney's stubborn defense of socialized medicine is a nonstarter.

All things considered, it might even be worse. Romney knows he has a problem with conservatives so might have to throw us an occasional bone. Perry thinks he can take us for granted so assumes we will put up with him on one issue such as open borders.

“..Romney, in my book, is worse than Perry - regardless, of who did or didn’t win a stupid debate.”

So you agree with Perry over Romney (and all of the others for that matter) on the illegal alien issue? For some of us, that is one of our litmus test issues.

Like it or not, “stupid debates” performance can have a major impact on the electorate. One bad performance may be survivable, but we have a pattern here with Perry - fumbling, mumbling, grasping at straws, failing to look opponents in the eyes, getting put down right and left, sticking to his guns even though they are loaded with blanks, etc. etc. Strikeouts at all three debates, ineffectively trying to defend his positions or writings. Get him in a debate with Obama (even without his teleprompter) and it would be tent folding time for the GOP.

Just like Bachmann, he has shown he is NOT ready for prime time when the spotlight got turned on. The best possible candidate is not yet in the race (not referring to Christie, Bush, Guiliani).